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We found some fun information in the October 23, 1908 edition of the Arden Club Talk! The newsletter’s banner lists what the Arden Club does including: “Theatricals, Esperanto, Economics, Dancing, Singing, Camp Fires, Club Room, Athletics, Library, and Piano.” The headline for this issue is Reorganization [of the Arden Club]. It gives a brief account of what […]
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The Arden Craft Shop Museum will be closed on the following days: Wednesday, November 23rdSunday, November 25thSunday, January 1st Happy holidays!
The ACSM is pleased to announce our 2016 Annual Fall Exhibition, THERE’S A GILD FOR THAT! will open Sunday, October 23rd. The exhibition will celebrate the many and varied gilds found in the Ardens during our history, as well as a look at those which are currently part of the community. The wealth of experiences found in
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The museum will be undergoing a sidewalk improvement project next week, so the museum will be closed on Wednesday, August 10. The museum will be open as usual by Sunday, August 14.
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The ACSM is excited to announce that we will have an intern from the University of Delaware this summer! Our intern, Liz Jones-Minsinger, is working toward her PhD in history and will be joining us for our Photographic Collection Project. The 2016 Photographic Collection Project involves inventorying, rehousing, describing, and scanning the Arden Archives Photographic
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Throughout the year, many different groups and gilds have helped the Museum with our celebration on the current exhibition – Authors of the Ardens. On Sunday, May 15th , the Ardensingers capped this event-filled year with a rousing performance of Grubb’s Corner, an operetta with lyrics by Frank Stephens set to the music of Gilbert and Sullivan. Stephens
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A number Arden Craft Shop Museum volunteers hosted a group of visitors from Rose Valley, PA in May. The group, called the Rose Tree Gardeners, was keen to see the beautiful gardens of the Ardens and learn more about the rich history of arts and crafts in the villages. The group visited five private gardens
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On a most beautiful sunny Sunday, the Arden Archives Committee sponsored an Afternoon with the Artist with guest artist Susan Benarcik as part of our Authors of the Ardens program series. Susan showed a collection of her works of art–both surface designs and sculpture–that were inspired by or actually made from pages of books. She demonstrated how to
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Museums came from all over to share the love, at Museums Amore, the 32nd Annual Small Museum Association conference held in Ocean City, MD this February. Arden Craft Shop Museum and Archives committee members Sadie Somerville and Barbara Macklem and our curator, Kelsey Ransick, attended the small museum conference along with more than 250 other museum professionals, board members, and
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The Arden Craft Shop Museum and Archives Committee Presents: An Afternoon with the ArtistCelebrating our exhibition Authors of the Ardens Susan Benarcik:Demonstration on Making Booksand Art Exhibition Sunday, April 24, 1-3 pmAt the Arden Craft Shop MuseumRefreshments will be served. Susan will demonstrate how to make a book by hand and what materials you would need to make
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